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Alessandro Davide Ialongo

3 accepted papers

2022

Evaluating Model-Based Planning and Planner Amortization for Continuous Control

ICLR 2022poster

There is a widespread intuition that model-based control methods should be able to surpass the data efficiency of model-free approaches. In this paper we attempt to evaluate this intuition on various challenging locomotion tasks. We take a hybrid approach, combining model predictive control (MPC) wi…

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2021

Iterative Amortized Policy Optimization

NeurIPS 2021poster

Policy networks are a central feature of deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for continuous control, enabling the estimation and sampling of high-value actions. From the variational inference perspective on RL, policy networks, when used with entropy or KL regularization, are a form of amort…

2019

Overcoming Mean-Field Approximations in Recurrent Gaussian Process Models

ICML 2019oral

We identify a new variational inference scheme for dynamical systems whose transition function is modelled by a Gaussian process. Inference in this setting has either employed computationally intensive MCMC methods, or relied on factorisations of the variational posterior. As we demonstrate in our e…